Get ready for more attacks on him like the latest by Tristram Hunt

Both Labour and Lib Dem strategists have told me in recent months that they now regard the education secretary, Michael Gove, as the Conservative party’s biggest electoral liability.

The newly published YouGov polling showing Labour with a 41% lead amongst this voter group underlines the view that there’s a big benefit to be had in attacking Gove hard and personally whenever the opportunity arises.

They believe they that Gove’s overly-confrontational approach with teachers is simply driving more of what is the largest professional group in the country away from the Tories.

It’s reckoned that more than a quarter of that key swing group, LD>CON switchers, work in education and teaching and it is vital for the red team for them to be kept on board on May 7th 2015